EU Benchmark Regulation
The EU Benchmark Regulation (EU 2016 /1011) imposes new requirements on firms that provide, contribute to or use a wide range of interest rate, currency, securities and other indices, including real estate indices. Read more
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Safety first: The rise of pan-European pooled funds
A major benefit of INREV’s deep and diverse member base is the potential for attracting new funds into its indices. And with each new fund comes valuable additional transparency for the European real estate industry. Read more
Germany set for growing capital allocations
The political uncertainty surrounding Brexit and the recent US presidential election has created short-term volatility in financial and currency markets, driving investors to look for more stable investment returns. The case for investing in German real estate has always been strong, but it appears to have particularly benefitted from this trend, with record levels of international capital targeting the market. Read more
Global Real Estate Funds Index
Recent years have confirmed the diversification benefits of real estate. At the same time, a desire for international diversification within real estate portfolios has meant cross border capital flows are now the norm. But global strategies have also generated a need for new sources of information, to help measure, understand and manage the performance of globally diversified investment portfolios. Read more
Back to the future
INREV’s Performance Measurement Committee members Ray Adderley and Stafford Biddulph (representing UK fund managers) and Rob Courtens and André Bresser (representing Danish and Dutch investors) got together in Copenhagen to explain to IQ why it’s now so important for members to provide extended historical fund data for their non-listed real estate vehicles. Read more
German Vehicles Index strikes a new path
The German Vehicles Index is a first for INREV, as it allows users to break down the performance of vehicles by domicile and legal structure. INREV plans this to be the first of a suite of national vehicles indices, which will make a new level of data available to the industry. Read more
INREV Global Investor Real Estate Performance Index
Patrick Kanters, APG unveils initial results of the Global Investor Real Estate Performance Index and calls for investors to support this new initiative, which will allow them to compare performance across different investment routes for the first time. Read more
Going global
The introduction of the Global non-listed Real Estate Funds Index (GREFI) in 2014 was a big step forward for the non-listed real estate industry. The collaboration between INREV, ANREV and NCREIF represents the integration of three member-driven, nonprofit organisations that have come together to serve the information needs of the expanding global activities of real estate market participants. Read more
Small step, giant leap
Data has become increasingly important in all aspects of business, and the real estate industry is no exception. Businesses large and small are combining internal data with external data to measure and record their investment performance. A new initiative aims to further support this endeavour. Read more